Child's environmental cognition and peer relations in indoor and outdoor preschool settings

本研究旨在探讨儿童日常生活中室内与室外游戏的对应关系。调查了儿童是否保持参与特定类型游戏的倾向，而不管环境如何，或者他们是否根据环境改变游戏类型以寻求新奇。结果表明，儿童的游戏行为并不是一成不变的，而是随着游戏情境的变化而变化。此外，每个年龄组的变化都有质的差异，这是基于环境的。因此，对于儿童设施来说，重要的是具有几种不同的游戏设置，以使儿童的游戏行为发生变化。

This study examined the correspondence between indoor and outdoor play in children's daily life. It was investigated whether children maintained the tendency to engage in a particular type of play, irrespective of the environment, or whether they changed the type of play according to the environment in order to seek novelty. The results indicate that children do not maintain fixed play behavior without taking into consideration the situation; on the contrary, their play changes greatly in accordance with the play setting. Furthermore, for each age group there is a qualitative difference in the change, which is based on the setting. Therefore, it is important for children's facilities to have several different play settings so as to bring about changes in the children's play behavior.